Notice change of address:
permanent, this time, I hope.
Shino  yamate-dori
Rokuchome 26
Kobe
Dear Mr. Scudder: -
I don't quite understand
your letter about keeping what may
not appear in the Atlantic for
the next book.  This would not
mean, I suppose, that the papers
appearing in the Atlantic would
be excluded from the next
book.  Before October, the
book will be finished.  Whether
Messrs. Houghton & Co. will
approve it, or not, of course
I don't know.  I have sent
you nine papers, and have
three more in course of
preparation.  I can only say
this, - that if Messrs. H. & Co.,
should not wish to publish
the book before spring, the
arrangement would be all
right, - only as I hope to





make a journey south, during the
winter - to Manila or Riu Kiu,
probably, - I should like
to see the proof before going.
This would not prevent you
from using the sketches you
might wish for in this meanwhile.
As to sending some
of the article elsewhere, I
don't know what to say.  Some
editors mutilate outrageously,
and some magazines illustrate
absurdly.  (Of course the
Harpers I cannot bear
to hear even mentioned.)
Then it seems to me no small
imposition to ask you to place
anything for me - you must
be a very busy man.  Still
if you think the publication





of an accepted book would not be
delayed beyond next spring, I
think I might venture later on to
accept your former offer on
the subject - providing you
can place an article or two
where it will not be mutilated
or fantastically illustrated,
and where it will be well
paid (though not to the
Harpers, even for a thousand
dollars a page.)
My present situation
may be no particular affair
of yours;  I mention it
merely to explain circumstances.
I have a number of people
to support, no chance of
employment - in Japan (except
such as would render literary





work impossible);  and I am obliged
to become a Japanese citizen
in order to do what is right
by my own people.  I can
live, at the present rate of
exchange, by self-denial
of a sort not stimulating
to my profession, on about
$600 to $700 a year.
This I cannot get from
the Atlantic.  Therefore,
to make ends meet I think
it advisable that I should
accept the newspaper syndicates'
offer of $1,200 for the
letters from the tropics
south of here.  With time
and patience I suppose I







shall be able to do better; but
I must try now to do just
what I can, and the voyage
may pay.  There has been
a strong effort by the "unco
guid" to run me out of
the country; but it has
not so far been successful.
I wrote you a
decidedly ugly letter the
other day, because I felt
and still feel ugly.  I
have never had any money
to spend in big researches;
it has been one constant
struggle with sickness and
bad sight and calumny
here; - and that I should





be blamed in the Atlantic
for not doing what I never
pretended to do, and find
myself maliciously belittled
when I never claimed to be
more than a sketch-writer,
and gave all my work to
the magazine instead of
to newspaper syndicates, -
seems to me pretty rough
treatment.  But I am
sure your sense of justice
will secure me from any
repetition of the same treatment.
If my letter was too ill-
natured, consider that the
difficulties under which I labor
are very trying to patience; -





and a reproach for my incapacities
in the Atlantic, from an outside
anonymous pen, rather staggers me.
If you wish to use
the "New Civilization", perhaps
this will reach you in time
to suggest a slight modi-
fication of the finale.  I
fear that I may seem to
figure as an opponent of
individualism altogether, - which
I am not, being a student
of Spencer.  Its cultivation
at a wrong time, and in
minds childish compared
with our own, may, however,
be disastrous.  I would





pray you to make some such
change as this: -
My original sentence
began:  "Individuality, in
this accepted sense of sel-
fishness" - For this,
I would substitute -
"The cultivation of
the individual - not for
the specialization of the
highest moral and mental
capacities, combined, but for mental
power alone, directed to
selfish ends", etc -
I remain, very truly
yours
Lafcadio Hearn
Kobe, Aug 1st.  95.
P.S. - I must add, on
second thought, that I do not
really care to write for another
magazine, - unless I can
get a very big price.
The Syndicates
pay much
better.  Perhaps
you had better
keep all.





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